I need to know the best way to clean all this stuff and attempt to save it. mouse seems okay and the iPod also does, the invisible shield protected it well. Its jsut the rest.

Battery in the iBook actually took most of the tea and that got yanked out immediatley. iBook is now resting after being dried off.

I dried up the remote and dock as best I could, taking the battey out the remote. Hope those will be okay.

The lacie drive is okay I think as it has the big metal covering.

But by far the worst was the keyboard. There was tea swimming around in it! Stains on all the keys! I called my mate who does loads of computer stuff he said to wash it out under the tap - sounded an odd idea but i guessed that if liquid would kill it then the tea would have done that already. So i took all the keys off it and washed it out and now it is drying.
But how do I get the remaining water in the keyboard out???

I cannot believe I did this, I NEVER drink around the computer. But this one time, I came home in snow which never happens and I was freezing and really wanted a big cup of tea but also had to print off some stuff quick, so I risked it - and look what happend! This is a warning to you all, dont drink around your stuff!

Anyone got tips on the keyboard, or any of the stuff? BTW I on the iMac now

Like CanadaRAM said, as long as nothing got between the sensitive membranes, you'll be fine. Pull out all the keys and mop up as much as you can. You will also be able to wash the keys clean. Then leave the keyboard in the airing-cupboard/somewhere warm and dry.
You're lucky though - the keyboard should be the least of your worries! Thank God the iBook/iPod/HD is ok!

Do not plug in or turn on anything until is is clean and has had a minimum of 24 hours - preferably 48 hours - to dry.

Put the keyboard upside down in a warm place like the top of the refridgerator and wait.

If you go tea between the membranes of the keyboard switches, that's all she wrote for that keyboard.

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Cheers. batteries are out of everything and just being left. keyboard got washed, keys will eventually be washed. drying now on radiator. thankfully i didnt lose my coursework in for wednesday that i am now frantically working on.
thanks for your help fingers crossed will come out fine!

You should look into an iCurve. This way, if you do happen to spill something again (which I'm sure you won't ) the iBook will be raised and away from the liquid. Keyboards/Mice/iPods can be replaced and usually don't cause data loss (songs from iPod should be on your HD), but the iBook is both expensive and stores all your data!

I have an iCurve and was using it! That's why my iBook was saved - hopefully. If it had been on the desk it would have definatley died. But on the iCurve only the bottom corner where the battery is got splashed and the side. This was one giant mug of tea and the force of me knocking it made tea fly everywhere so even on the iCurve, the iBook was not out of reach of flying tea

Haha! And there's a testament. They should add it to the specification on their site.

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 Your laptops rear access door or connectors are fully exposed when its on the iCurve. This makes it easy to reach cables and connectors.

 iCurve makes it very easy to move your laptop around your desk. To show your screen to a colleague just grab the round base and slide.

 The iCurve is perfect for tiling the PowerBook with Apple's LCD monitors: iCurve positions the top of Apples PowerBook at 16", the same height as Apple's 17" LCD monitor and roughly the same height as Apple's 23" Cinema Display. With the Cinema Display youll have almost 3.4 million pixels of side-by-side screen real estate!!!

I really feel for you as I've done that before but with a bottle of archers! I was using a windows pc, the keyboard on the laptop was unuseable (sorry to tell you that) as the keys kept sticking but everything else was fine. The good note to my story is I got a iBook cause of it.

Well I couldn't wait any longer so I tried everything about an hour ago, and it all works fine. Took my ages to put all the keys back on the keyboard, some are really hard to get on. But it worked fine! I was in amazement, totally expected the keyboard to be broke. But thankfully it is all fine! THanks for your words of advice and fingers crossed nothing else happens!

I spilt a glass of wine over my iBook about a year ago and it cost me about £100 to get the thing sorted. To add insult to injury, it was the last glass left in the bottle as well. Which kind of makes sense now I think about it...

I spilt a glass of wine over my iBook about a year ago and it cost me about £100 to get the thing sorted. To add insult to injury, it was the last glass left in the bottle as well. Which kind of makes sense now I think about it...

I really feel for you as I've done that before but with a bottle of archers! I was using a windows pc, the keyboard on the laptop was unuseable (sorry to tell you that) as the keys kept sticking but everything else was fine. The good note to my story is I got a iBook cause of it.

A cup of tea killed my Vaio laptop. Best efforts at immediate draining and drying failed to revive the machine. The liquid just drained through all the holes in the case and started flowing out of the DVD tray. I guess I did not expect that it would ever come back from dead.
If anyone is unlucky enough to have killed a laptop in this manner, check out your household contents insurance policy. If you are lucky enough to have accidental damage cover, there is a good chance they will pay up for a replacement. Don't forget to check that your excess is relatively low.

I drink, eat dinner, etc all around my keyboard. Never spilled much on it, few drips of juice, or those few times that ice cream fell on it. But food, thats another story. My keyboard has a zillion crumbs, and stains on it from various foods, and food sauces. Microsoft might be a right pain in the arse at times, but they make a bloody tough keyboard!

I drink, eat dinner, etc all around my keyboard. Never spilled much on it, few drips of juice, or those few times that ice cream fell on it. But food, thats another story. My keyboard has a zillion crumbs, and stains on it from various foods, and food sauces. Microsoft might be a right pain in the arse at times, but they make a bloody tough keyboard!

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I have crumbs in my keyboard too and I can see it through the clear casing. It's kinda gross..

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